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I bet some of you superusers have nice home server rooms.

Show us some pictures and tell us features/specs!

Air condition? Dust free? Mounted an ATX computer on the wall with zip ties? Show us!

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servers and things related are more topical on serverfault – ldigas Jul 17 '09 at 23:13
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Not true. 'Server Fault is for system administrators and IT professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity.' – ajm Jul 17 '09 at 23:18
I wonder what the difference is between the frequency of normal people having server rooms and SUers having server rooms... – Zifre Jul 17 '09 at 23:23
If this question was on serverfault it would ask to see the server room at your work place. I want to see less professional, more Frankenstein home setups. – Pyrolistical Jul 17 '09 at 23:32
I'll take a picture of my networking setup that's duct-taped to the rafters when I get home :) – ajm Jul 17 '09 at 23:41
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First photo is of my server and dev box in my office (no server room sadly).

Dev box and Server

  • Server (The blue box): Quad 2.4 GHz Intel, 8 Gb ram, 4HDD (2x250GB, 1x500GB, 1x1TB), at the top of the case is a 3 SATA HDD caddy which isn't used at present (it's a bit noisy – esp with HDDs in!) and due to the case I can't actually remove it. I've put a lot of effort into making this box as quiet as it runs 24x7.

    The server runs Server 2008 with Hyper-V and usually has 2 VMs (2k3 AD/DNS & Build Machine), other VMs powered on for staging, testing, home server as needed. Dual Nics but only 1 used. Headless configuration. Front power light not working.

  • Dev box: Quad 2.4 GHz Intel, 8Gb ram, 2HDD (2x500GB) running Vista x64, dual monitors.

  • To the left of the dev box is a APC SmartUPS 1500 UPS which powers both dev box and server (about 20% load).

Not shown:

  • 1TB Q-NAP NAS which stores music, videos, MSDN iso images, backups and is used to get my USB printer onto the LAN.

  • 2GHz Intel single core box running VMWare Server with 2k8 backup domain controller and DNS.

Below photos are of my network patch panel in the loft.

Home Network

Rear of network patch

(This was before the PDU and UPS installed so more mains cables than at present).

The rack is a little over populated with switches at present – it's partly used to store unused ones. The case is about 7U tall and 300 mm deep, the mountings for the rack is in it's front position to allow for the deep switches but means the door can not be closed.

  • 1x Patch panel supplying 22 CAT5 outlets in my flat.
  • 1x Netgear Gigabit managed switch (GSM7224)
  • 2x POE switches 3COM 10/100 (white with the red patch leads) and Netgear managed 10/100 both with 1000Gb non POE. The 3COM is used in the flat and the other for playing with.
  • 1x APC Power Distribution Unit.
  • 1x HP 10/100 switch – unused at present.
  • 1x Netgear 10/100 switch – also unused.

The APC PDU is used to control power to the switches. Normally the POE switches are off and only the Netgear Gigabit switch is running, however with it being in the loft the PDU allows me to switch on the POE switches as needed (their really noisy) and cycle the power on the gigabit switch if needed.

To the right of the rack is a small APC UPS, its very under powered and just enough to keep a brownout from affecting the switches. The plan is to get a better UPS and to push a POE connection to the ADSL router so it's remotely powered and stays up when the power fails (not only does it do the internet routing but it's the DHCP server as well).

No aircon and actually the loft gets very hot!

A few more photos and bit more details on my home network blog post

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Holy crap! That's awesome! If you are married, how does your spouse put up with that? If not, I know why! :-) – Frank V Jul 31 '09 at 15:10
All the photos are no longer there, I would love to see them if you could update this? – jasondavis Mar 16 '10 at 3:30
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May I know what do you do?, especially with this stuff. !! – user18151 Apr 1 '10 at 8:42
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You know those space shuttles, and how they say "houston, we have a problem"... well.. this is Houston. – Faruz Apr 1 '10 at 9:31
Software Developer... but mostly being single and getting to spend all my money at my discretion :) – tsilb Apr 1 '10 at 23:50
not to insult you but ... it shows :-) – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Aug 6 '10 at 7:43
None taken. I freely acknowledge that my priorities are my own. – tsilb Aug 6 '10 at 18:55
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